In case of Parallels Mac Management we offer complete Mac management solution, which is much more advanced comparing to the SCCM's built-in Mac management capabilities. With the latest release, we even support SCCM task sequence steps. Parallels Mac Management fully integrates with the Configuration Manager console, so IT administrators can manage Mac and Windows computers using the same familiar graphical user interface. In This Chapter Parallels Mac Management Component Overview.

Now that you've got the Parallels Mac Management for SCCM tool install and discovered your Mac clients on the network by following my post:. You're ready to start deploying applications. What you'll need for this is to re-package your applications into the.cmmac format. For more information on how to re-package your applications, check out my post First thing you'll want to to do is create an application in SCCM, like you may normally do and select Mac from the dropdown and browse to your.cmmac file.

Click Next>Ms word watermark not removing. You're hoping for the green check mark of approval here! You can provide the application information here e.g. App Name, Publisher, Software version. If you'd like you could categorize the application so it appears organized. Click Next > Click Next > Click Close if all is green.

As usual you'll want to Distribute the Content of your application For deploying an application. You will need a command in your Deployment Type's program tab similar to this: /usr/bin/ditto 'Firefox.app' '/Applications/Firefox.app':rm -rf '/Applications/Firefox.app' This command is basically extracting.app for the application and putting it into the Applications Folder. Above also contains the removal command.

You may want to right click on your application, browse to application catalog and set the icon as I did above. When complete. Right click on the application and click Distribute Content Click Next > Click Next > Add the Distribution Points you want to distribute to Click Next > Click Close Select your Mac collection. You may have created separate collections of your Macs, in this example.

I'm only deploying to one. Click Ok Click Next > Select your DP and Next > You can set the application to be required or available. Click Next > Set your schedule, however you like and click Next > I left my settings here as default but that's up to yourself. Click Next > Click Next > Click Next > Click Close And now your application is installed and appears within the Parallels Application Portal.

As of there are great new features – such as the new role Software Update Point. The addition of this role is to enable managed updates for the OSX-devices within your environment and it acts as a bridge between the (or the able service) and the Configuration Manager environment which PMM integrates into. All of these products will now integrate in a (sort of) seamless way and PMM can now enable its new role (PMM SUP) to inject updates into Microsoft WSUS, which ConfigMgr then uses to publish content. The Apple SUS is optional and if one is setup you can leverage this to further control updates.